Erends Review.
Vor. XXIX.
EDITED BY HENRY HARTSHORNE,
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CONTENTS.
Peace with the Indians... ....... .......-.ccceesseeeeees N_ Y. Times 735
As He which hath ¢ .Jled you is Holy... ae dpaanten Jas. Harris 7
Peace Principles Exemplified, (continued). 7
Death of Rishop Cum «ins
Consider the Lilies...
Recording Prayer
Cardinal Meuniag es Temperance..
Baby Farming
Children’s Seashore House, Atlantic City
Epitortat—Quotation and Abridement - London and
Philadelphia Yearly Meetings—First-day School Con-
ference, Western M.—Roman Catholic Total Ab-
BtineENCe MoveEMent.......0. scene. cee ser eee ve 7
DEATHS......... ws
The American ‘Sabbath... dene
How Jesus Draws Men
Drietei ne Bpiras.....cc0osevece +eccee vores senccese: coves
The Quickening Needed..
Portky —A supplication... il
Quarterly Meetings in E nicest Month..
SuMMAKY OF Niws..
~- Baptist Union 7
Geo. Muller ler 7
— From ¢ a Tract *
San ‘itarian
From the New York Times.
PEACE WITH THE INDIANS.
(AN EXTRACT.)
All through the west there is manifested a
PHILADELPHIA, SEVENTH MON TH 29, 1876.
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No. 50.
What is meant by “the oiican policy”
which is thus bitterly assailed? If it means
anything, it means the policy of justice and
humanity. Whatever may have been the
faults of the present Administration, history
will credit it with having at least made the
attempt to treat the Indians fairly. Where
we have become involved in war with the
Modoes or the Sioux, the cause is to be-found
not in the maligned “ Quaker policy,” but in
| occasional acts of wilful or ignorant injustice,
which were so many deviations from the very
policy to which the present Indian war is
falsely imputed. We ordered the Modocs to
remove to.a barren reservation in Oregon,
| where they were in absolute danger of star-
vation. They left the reservation, preferring,
'as they expressed it, to die in battle in their
own country rather than to starve in a strange
“oe | and sterile land. The facts in the case have
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wild desire for vengeance against the so-called |
murderers of our soldiers.
with more or less shamelessness the frontier
theory that the only use to which an Indian
can be put is to kill him. From all sides
come denunciations of what is called in terms
of ascending sarcasm, “the peace policy,
“the Quaker policy,’ and “the Sunday-
school policy.” Volunteers are eagerly of-
The press echoes |
been fully set forth by Mr. Meacham, a man
who bears the scars of Modoc rifle-bullets,
but who still advocates the “ Quaker policy,”
and who maintains that the Modoc war was
in no possible sense the result of that policy.
Neither was the Sioux war bronghbt about by
peace men, or Quakers, or Sunday-school
sentimentalists. We bound ourselves by
treaty with the Sioux to prevent white men
from entering the Black Hills country, which
we had ceded to them forever. We then sent
Custer to explore the country at the head of
‘a column of troops, and his report of the
‘rush of reckless gold-hunters,
discovery of gold mines was fol!owed by a
These acts,
which were in direct violation of our solemn
»| treaty obligations, were surely not the out-
growth of a peace policy. Custer’s troop-
/ers were not Quekers, nor were the Black
fering their services “to avenge Custer and |“ ; : ner, Pee .
rhe one bright feature in this miserable busi-
| ness was the long forbearance of the savages
exterminate the Sioux,” and public opinion,
not only in the West, but to some extent in
the East, has apparently decided that the In-
dians have exhausted the furbearance of |
heaven and earth, and must now be exter-
minated as though they were so many mad ©!
dogs.
Hills miners Sunday-school superintendents,
to attack either the exploring expedition or
the miners, and the loyal bearing of Young
Man Afraid of His Horses, who, at the coun-
1 where the Sioux declined to sell a territory
‘as large as the State of Michigan for fifty
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thousand dollars, saved the Commissioners
from the massacre meditated by the wilder
tribes. It was not until after we had failed
to cajole the Sioux into a sale, and had openly
abandoned all pretence of observing our
treaty obligations, that the Indians attacked
the miners, and with the aid of outlying clans
like the band of Sitting Bull, renewed the
fight of centuries against white aggression.
This is the true and shameful origin of the
Sioux war; and had the Quaker policy of
iustice been faithfully and iutelligently car-
ried out, neither the Modocs nor the Sioux
would have been provoked into hostility.
Over the border the Indians and the col-
onists live in peace. The peace policy which
we have tried as a new thing—dropping it
now and then through weariness or inadver-
tence—has there proved so complete a suc-
cess that its wisdom is conclusively demon-
strated. Is there a strange and baleful magic |
in the invisible boundary line, whereby the
Indians who, on the other side of it are
peaceable and trustworthy, become on this
side utterly treacherous and bloodthirsty? It |
not, there must be some mistake in the theory
that extermination is the only pelicy which
should be pursued toward the Indians of the |
United States. |
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From the Advocate of Christian Holiness,
“AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS
HOLY.”’
BY JAMES HARRIS. |
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Who called? I was “dead in trespasses
and sins.” I lay in the arms of Satan, as a|
babe lying in a cradle at his mother’s side,
who touches it to rock him again to sleep
when the first sign of awaking is perceived.
I had thus been for many years, when a voice
sounded so loudly—‘‘ A wake, thou that sleep-
est; arise from the dead, and Christ sha!]
give thee light,”—that I sprang up at once,
dashed my sleep away, and looked around.
“The dead were there.” All around me
were strewn the bodies of the slain, but from
the cross there streamed a light, and by its
aid I ran, and at its foot I fell, and with
trembling accents I cried: “God, be merci-
ful to me, a sinner.” A gentle hand raised
me, and gazing upward I saw the smiling,
loving, forgiving countenance of my God
reconciled. But, who called ?
Who called? I had mistaken the way.
It is true that it was distinctly marked, and
it was straight, butin a moment of sleepy in-
difference, [ had stepped upon the wrong
road. It led me from my Church and com-
munion with the people of God, from my pas-
tor and from my closet. Yet I thought they
were all wrong, and I only was right. Great
rocks multiplied in my path, they were la-
belled hard feelings. I struggled with them,
but I had a hard time with them. My peace
was gone, and my animity. It became
darker as I svehealel but I would not be
rsuaded that I was wrong. No! Did not
~ the way? Then I heard a voice:
“ Return, thou backsliding Israel, and I will
not cause my anger to fall upon you, for I
am merciful and will not keep my anger for-
ever.” I turned round and hurried back
into the highway, and in the communion of
God’s people, and under the ministry of
God’s servant, and in my closet I found again
victory and delight. But, who called?
Who called? I was praying, reading and
rejoicing. Heaven’s bright light shone around
me; my peace flowed like a river; I had no
care, no doubt ; beloved and loving, on a flow-
ery path it seemed that I was journeying to
the skies. Before me, in the very pathway
there lurked the lion, watching for his prey.
His eyes were glaring fire, his look was
fierce, yet I saw him not, nor dreamed of such
danger near, when a voice cried: ‘‘ Be sober,
be vigilant, for your adversary, the devil, as
a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom
he may devour.” I sprang into my Saviour’s
/arms just as the proud beast made his spring.
\I was saved. But, who called?
Who called? I was pausing, lost in medi-
tation of Divine and eternal things, and al-
| most longing to be away and join the blood-
washed before the throne. Around me was
a world of sinners, for whom my Saviour had
shed His blood. There were heathen at
home, and on far distant shores. There were
children neglected and dying. There were
laborers spent and faint, but [, so intent on
heaven, saw them not, when I heard a voice
which said: “ Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us?” Then said I, “ Here am I,
send me.” I gazed around me, and felt the
thrill of a holy fire to bind up the broken-
hearted, and to give the good news to the
perishing; to strengthen the weak hands, and
to bea father, a mother in Israel to the
orphans. My busy hands were soon fully em-
ployed, and earth itself became more hee.venly
for my toil. But, who called ?
Who called? I was happy in my Saviour’s
love, yet, fain would I have loved Him with
a perfect heart. I talked often of heaven,
and spoke of my hope, yet it seemed alto-
gether of a heaven a long way off in a distant
sphere. As I looked upon it I saw that
heaven was perfect love, and its inhabitants
wore white robes. They were the robes of
purity. Its joys were the joys of unselfish-
ness, freedom from pride and envy, jealousy
and anger, there was perfect confidence and
perfect charity. Its very light was the light
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of holy love, and as I sighed: “ O! what will | resided for some time at Grace Hill, amongst
it be to be there?” I heard a voice, “ Wash | the Moravians themselves,
and be clean.” I gazed around me, and the; “You request me to inform you of what I
fountain filled with blood stood at my side;|know respecting the Moravians and their
the fountain in which all the glorified had | great objection to war, or any party work
washed and made their garments white. In| whatever. This I can clearly do from a lon
mute astonishment I stood, then asked : “And | residence among them, during which time t
may I be clean, wholly clean ; clean as those | never knew one of the members of their society
before the Throne, while here on earth I live; |summoned to sessions or any other court of
nor know again the rising of pride, nor the | law, which, from their being so numerous, is
motion of envy, nor the working of jealousy, | rather a wonderful thing in unfortunate I[re-
nor the cravings of covetousness?” “TI will,|land. Their wish and aim is to live peacea-
be thou clean,” said the voice, and I washed
bly and industriously under the existing gov-
my garments white in the blood of the Lamb. | ernment, not meddling with politics or affairs
But, who called ?
of State ; they having a much higher object
Who called? Answer, St. Paul: “It
in view—the training of souls for the inherit-
— God who called me by His grace.” | ance of glory.
al.i. 15. ““God hath called you unto his} “You may remember an anecdote I used
kingdom and glory.” 1 Thess. ii. 12. “God |to tell you of good old Mr. Fredlezius (the
hath saved us and called us with an holy call- | minister), during the rebellion of 1798, and a
ing.” 2Tim,i.9. Answer St. Peter: “The | few days before the battle of Antrim, when a
God of all grace hath called us to eternal|party of ragged United Irishmen came to
glory by Jesus Christ.” 1 Pet. v: 9. “”Twas|Grace Hill, ard told him, that unless the
od himself who called me, and I hear Him | brethren joined them, they would burn the
calling yet, again.” settlement and murder the whole community,
What says he? “ As I am holy, so be ye!and said, that in a few weeks all Ireland
holy.” Shall I not obey the voice? Yes. | would be theirs, as the French had landed to
Not man, not Fletcher, not Wesley, not|restore them to their rights, and that unless
Peter, not Paul, be my model, but God Him-| they became of their party and took up arms
self. Mineshall bea God-like holiness, like | they would not allow them an inch of ground
His. It must be holiness of my inmost na-| jn the island. But poor, dear, old Fredlezius,
ture like His. It must be all-pervading, per- | who had not half time to dress himself, came
vading all my powers of knowledge and all| out among them in his red night cap, and,
my power to work, all my presence, and all | trusting that God would soon deliver them
my words, all my thoughts and all my busi-| out of the hands of such a mob, coolly said,
ness. |“ Well, well, my friends, be peaceable, and
And here is my motive, God calls me to it, | when you be de cock we be de chickens; come
and here my authority, because it is written: | into the inn and refresh yourselves.” And,
“ Be ye holy for I am holy.” indeed, they did so, drinking all they could.
= ‘They then went to the shop, carried off all
For Friends’ Review the green stuff and ribands they could get,
: and said they would come again for the final
THE PRINCIPLES OF PEACE EXEMPLI-| answer as to what party they would join,
FIED BY THE FRIENDS AND MORA- | and, if not theirs, they would reduce the place
VIANS IN IRELAND DURING THE to ashes, and murder the whole set. hey
REBELLION OF 1798. did assuredly come, not many days ow
: f tine of s Han- | arrived in multitudes, and drew up in front
ew ann rons ef the sisters’ house, while the poor sisters had
all assembled in their prayer-hall to implore
BY JACOB 8S. WILLETS. God to protect them; and momentarily ex-
| pecting those ruffians to break in upon them.
At this conjuncture some dragoons galloped
Tae Experience OF THE MoraviANs|past with accounts to Ballymena that the
DURING THE ReEBELLION.—In connection | Rebels were beaten at Antrim and would
with the battle of Antrim it is peculiarly|soon be annihilated. This so terrified the
ratifying to be enabled to communicate a) ragged rabble that they took flight in all di-
ew particulars relating to what occurred at | rections, leaving the _ Moravians to bless
the Wedovien settlement near it. The inci-|and magnify that God who had so providen-
dent proves that the same principles of con- | tially preserved them.”
duct will lead to the same practical effects,| [The Rev. CO. Ignatius La Trobe, Secretary
whether maintained by one society of Chris-|of the Moravian Missions, having been ap-
tians or by another; and the author is in-| plied to on behalf of the Peace Society for
debted for it to an intelligent female, who|such further information respecting the pres-
(Continued from page 759.)
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ervation of the Moravian settlements from |in disposition than the former, paid them a
military outrage with which he might be ac-| second visit, as described by your correspond-
quainted, has obligingly made the following | ent, from which they were delivered as related
communication :] by her.
19 BARTLETT’s BuILpINGs, April 8, 1828. “The destruction of Toome Bridge, over
“ Dear Sir:—You bave desired me to add | the river Bann, connecting the counties Derry
some particulars to the account given by an and Antrim, by the Rebels themselves, pre-
‘intelligent female,’ who had resided some | Vented those 1D Derry from joing their
time among the Moravians at Grace Hill comrades in Antrim, which the brethren in
(their settlement in the north of Irelznd), re- Grace Hill considered a providential circum-
specting the manner in which they were pre- | stance. As success declared itself in favor of
served from harm in the Rebellion of 1798.
Your correspondent justly describes them as
giving the glory of their deliverance to the
mercy and power of God alone; and their
and our hearts are filled with gratitude when
ever we call to mind the many proofs of His
goodness, experienced during that dreadful
period.
“T would the more willingly comply with
your request were I able to refer to the jour-
nals and reports then sent to al] our congre-
— in manuscript but never printed.
hey are, however, not now within my reach.
You will, therefore, kindly accept of the im- |
perfect accounts my memory may enable me
to furnish.
“The jury in Carrickfergus, having been
required by the government to give their
opinien as to the disposition of the inhabit-
ants of that region, had stated that the Mo-
“ravian brethren at Grace Hill might be con-
sidered as truly loyal subjects, which was
indeed the case, as they wished in this, as in
all things, conscientiously to obey the injunc-
tious given in the word of God.
“This declaration, of course,’gave great
umbrage to many leaders of the rebellion;
and it is said that the destruction of Grace
Hill was determined upon in their councils.
I must observe that I am unable to quote
dates, and you must excuse my mentioning
events as they occur to my mind. I have
heard that when Mr. Fredlezius, the warden,
either party alternately, the friends of both
were at a loss whither to fly for safety. To
the surprise of the brethren, Grace Hill be-
came the general asylum. The leaders of
both parties had charged the inhabitants pot
| to suffer any fugitives to enter their dwellings.
When they, therefore, arrived with their
goods in cars, or in wagons, they had no
place of shelter, but either in sheds, or under
cover of their vebicles, which filled the square.
Rebels and king’s men lay close together in
the same distress, and were both treated with
humanity by the inhabitants. It happened
that some in flying along the streets threw
their purses and money into the houses, and
made sure of their being restored by the un-
known inmates. Such was the confidence of
all in these honest Christian people.”
THE SETTLEMENTS ON THE CONTINENT.
“Respecting dur settlements on the conti-
nent, I am at a still greater loss as to dates;
but the instances of God’s preservation of our
defenceless places and their inhabitants are
numrous. The battle of Bautzen, in which
the Russians and Prussians were defeated by
Bonaparte, mizht have ended in the destruc-
tion of our settlement at Kleinwelcke, had it
been otherwise decided. The French made
it the receptacle of the sick and wounded.
Their subsequent invasion of Silesia brought
Gnadenberg into still greater danger. It was
twice plundered; and on a representation be-
who was a man of a remarkably calm and|ing made to Bonaparte, he is said to have
unc ffending character, heard of the approach | declared, that as the Moravian brethren and
of the first party of Rebels, he went out to|he himself had one common end in view—
meet them, and addressing their captain, a | the establishment of general peace throughout
man of ferocious appearance, said,‘ Do you |all the world—they should not be molested,
come as friends, or as enemies?’ After some| He ordered the names of the four Silesian
demur the captain answered, * As friends, to
be sure; what would you have us to be?’|
Mr. Fredlezius then held out his hand, which
the captain took, assuring him that they
settlements to be written down, and promised
them safety. Gnadenberg was at that time
exposed to great danger from balls and
shells flying over and entering the streets and
meant to do no mischief if they were only| houses. Herrnhut, in Upper Lusatia, was
supplied with victuals, arms and ammunition. | spared, being the resort, by turns, of general
They were told that they had been obliged to | staffs of both armies, by which, however, im-
deliver up all their fire-arms and gunpowder | mense expense was incurred. I will only
by the king’s troops. The party then entered | relate one instance of their preservation among
the shop, took all the green riband they|many: A party, above a thousand strong,
could find, and, being supplied with food and|of Russians, or Poles, I forget which, had
drink, marched off. encamped in the garden and premises behind
“ Another party of several hundreds, worse'the house cf the single sisters. They were
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excessively wild, and no kind treatment|given from the Epistle from the Yearly
seemed to make any impression upon them.| Meeting held in Dublin in 1801, addressed
Having threatened, as soon as it should grow | to the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia, which
dark, to seize upon the house, and their offi- | states that “it was cause of grateful acknow-
cers declaring that they could not restrain | ledgment to the God and Father of all our
their men, the inhabitants were in the utmost | mercies, that, in retrospection to that gloomy
state of consternation. Their only hope was | season, when, in some places, Friends did not
in God, to whom they had recourse in fervent | know but that every day would be their last,
prayer, trusting to his mercy. About sunset, | seeing and hearing of so many of their neigh-
an order arrived from the general, command-| bors being put to death, that no member of
ing the whole party to join the main army |our Society fell a sacrifice in that way but
near Zittau without a moment’s delay. Thus| one young man.”
speedy deliverance was wrought, and surely| That an exception should thus bo made of
none could deny that the Lord had heard the|one young man in the accidents and allot-
prayers of His children offered up in their| ments of a society composed of some thousands,
deep distress. lis in itself a remarkable occurrence; and
“T have thus endeavored in some degree to|every one must be curious to know under
satisfy your wishes, and trust that I have not| what circumstances the death of this individ-
made any misstatements. ual took place.
“T am, dear sir, your affectionate friend, This young man, apprehending that his life
“C. Ie. La Trose. | was in dinger, and that he could find no pro-
To Mr. Jonn Bevan.” itection but by outward. means of defence,
Or THE GENERAL PRESERVATION OF THE | t0ok up the resolution accordingly to put on
Socrery purINc THE RepeLtion, aNnp|® military uniform, and to associate with
BROTHERLY CARE TOWARDS ITs SUFFERING |#™Med men. He told his connections that
Mempers.—The Society of Friends is scat: | they all wou'd be murdered if they remained
tered over three provinces in Ireland. In/im such a defenceless state in the country ;
these, viz., Ulster, Leinster and Munster,| #24 taking with him some papers of conse-
many of its members were brought into im- | (UENCE, he fled to a neighboring garrison
mediate contact with one or both of the con-|town. Bnt it so happened that the very
tending parties, in towns, villages and retired | ow" he chose as a place of refuge was at-
country places. Some, it must be acknow-| tacked and taken by the insurgents; and,
from the most credible information that can
ledged, were living with little more than an \
outward and formal profession of the princi- | be collected, it appears that when the contest
ples against war, held as one of its Christian | ¥45 OVer, and he was wantonly firing out of
tenets by the Society ; in fact, they submitted | # window upon them, the door of the house
to the opinions of their friends, and followed | ¥9% forced open by the enraged enemy, and,
traditionally the maxims of their education |i" terror of his life, he sought to co iceal
without feeling such strong convictious of the himself in an upper chamber, where he was
indispensable duty whch this principle en |800 discovered and put to death. ,
jeinth, as would ene made aa willing to| Pitiable young man! How little did he
part with their liberty or property, much less | know what was for his real good! He left
with their lives, rather than to violate such | his home, and the wise instructions of his pa-
an important testimony. jrents, thinking they would afford no pro-
In this great variety of circumstances and | tection in this time of peril. He calculated
of perils to which they were exposed, it js natu-|¥pom @ short sighted policy, as it proved,
ral enough to inquire whether the Society lost | though he followed the usual maxims of the
any of its members. We are enabled to| World; and what was the result? The means
answer this question by an authentic docu-| he took for his preservation proved his ruin.
ment, issued by the Yearly Meeting in Dub-| he dress and arms, in which he was accou-
lin, which contains the following passage :| ‘ered, were his greatest enemies; they spoke
“It is worthy of commemoration and cause | the language of hostility, and invited it. The
of humble thankfulness to the Preserver of | POWer 12 which he trusted failed him as in a
men, that, amidst the carnage and destruction | ™oment. On the other hand, the relations he
which frequently prevailed in some parts, |
and notwithstanding the jeopardy in which
some Friends stood every hour, and that they
had frequently to pass through violent and
enraged men iv going to and from our relig-
ious meetings (which with very few exceptions
were constantly kept up) that the lives of our
members were so signally preserved.” |
And, in the same document, an extract is
| abandoned were saved ; their peaceful princi-
ples were to them as a tower and shield; and
their solitary home, though unfurnished with
outward defence, proved in the end a place of
safety.
(To be concluded.)
THe death of Bisho
causes general grief.
Cummins, June 26,
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Baltimore, of inflammation of the bowels, at|
the age of 54. He was the founder and head |
of the Reformed Episcopal church, having)
seceded from the Episcopal church in 1873, |
on account of the ritualistic tendencies of
that denomination. He as an able preacher, |
an earnest Christian, and broad-minded man. |
— Baptist Union.
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CONSIDER THE LILIES.
A‘ the conclusion of Sandwich Quarterly
Meeting, held at Falmouth, Mass., 7th mo.
6th, 1876, Stanley Pumphrey, having a pond
lily in his hand, spoke nearly as follows :
“As I was entering the meeting-house, a
kind friend handed me this flower; regarding
which I have been drawn into a few reflec-
tions, which it seems best to lay before you.
“ This flower, when I first received it, was
fresh, fragrant, pure, and beautiful; show-
ing what exquisite beauty and loveliness our
Lord may bring forth from very unpromising
materials. It is a plant formed in the mire,
and growing in unsightly surroundings. Yet
from amidst the impure and vile, it has grown
up and blossomed forth an emblem of purity.
So, the things which we do lightly esteem in
this lower world, or loathe as grievous, incon- |
venient, or uncongenial, may be converted
into the conditions of our spiritual develop-
ment, and the beauty of the Lord our God
upon us. So, by His grace, may we be en-
dued with ‘beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, and the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness.’
“By the length of the stem which this
flower crowns, it appears that it has come up
through deep waters, until finally it was un-
folded to the light. What encouragement is
there for us unto patient continuance in the
midst of our dark or turbid or storm-tossed |
surroundings, ever looking to come up higher
by means of these to the Sun of righteous-
ness, in His light shining clearer and clearer,
till we emerge into the perfect day. We
may be toiling, we may have to grope up-|
ward as in the darkness, but let us patiently
fight the good fight of faith, to finish our
course and reach the crown of righteousness,
which the Lord will give us in that day.
“You see this flower which was at first so.
fresh and lovely, now wilted and withering
away. This is because it has become detached
from the root that bore it. Beware lest it be
so with any of us through our not dwelling
in the root, as branches abiding in the Vine. |
From Christ Jesus, our root and foundation,
we derive all our life and supply. Discon-
nected from Him, we shall wilt, and wither,
and perish. Clinging to Him, we shall draw
continually upon everlasting strength, and'|
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bring forth, not only of His glory and beauty
to adorn His doctrine, but also much fruit
unto life eternal. ‘Consider the lilies how
they grow !’”
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RECORDING PRAYER
George Muller says: “I would particularly
advise all, but especially the young believers,
to use a little book, in which they may note
down on one side the requests which they
bring before God. There are certain matters
which God has laid on our hearts, and we
should note them down. It would be help-
ful to us to write: ‘ At such-and-such a time
I began to pray for such-and-such a thing ;’
and to continue to pray with regard to this
matter. If we do so, we shall find that soon-
er or later our prayer will be answered. Then
let us mark on the opposite side, that it has,
at such a time, pleased God to answer the
prayer. After some time read over the memo-
randum book, and you will find how again
and again it has pleased God to answer your
prayers—and perhaps regarding matters
about which you little expected the answer to
come; and soon you will find the wondrous
effects of this on your heart, in increasing
vour love and gratitude to our Heavenly
Father. The more careful you are in mark-
ing what you ask, and what God has given,
the more distinctly you will be able to trace
how again and again it pleased God to an-
swer your prayers, and more, you will be
drawn out to God in love and gratitude.
You will find precisely as the Psalmist found
it when he says: ‘I love the Lord, because
He hath heard my voice and my supplication.’”
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Part oF A LeTreR FROM CARDINAL
ManninG TO THE CatHotic Toran As-
STINENCE Union oF AmeErica.—If I need-
ed anything to bind me to the last hour
of my life in maintaining our common con-
flict with the tilence of intoxication, it
would be enough to remember that the little
I have hitherto done has been in any way a
ee to your efforts. As the pastor of
souls, I have before me the wreck of men,
women, children, home, and all the sanctities
'of domestic life. I see prosperity turned into
temptation, the wages of industry not only
wasted, but, as they increase, making the
plague more deadly. I see legislation impo-
tent to remove the evils it has caused, and
I am driven to the last slow but sure hope,
an appeal to the Catholic heart and the Chris-
tian conscience of the people. The apostle
says: “It is good not to eat flesh and not to
drink wine, nor anything whereby thy broth-
er is offended, or srhisdathoed. or made weak.”
(Rom, xiv. 21.) St. Paul did not limit this
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to the meats offered to idols. He lays down| there are sewing women and others, not ill,
the law of generous charity. | but delicate, whom such a week of change
If my liberty in using what is safe to me| might help for the rest of the year.
encourage others in the use of the same, he practical working of the plan presents
which is dangerous to them, then I will use| no great diffi-ulties; parents, or friends inter+
itno more. If my denying myself in this, | ested, can make the small preparations neces-
which 1 am free to renounce, shall help or | sary for the children, and start them on their
encourage even one soul who has fallen journey, and the inviting parties can meet
through intoxication to rise up and break his| them at the stations.
bonds, then I will gladly abstain as long as I) If further information is desired, Mra. E.
live! If we can spread this higher law of|S.Turner, of Chadd’s Ford, D :laware County,
love and generous self-denial, a public opin-| or Mrs. Miry Cox, Norway, Chester County,
ion will soon grow up before which even leg-| among the ladies engaged in this beautifal
islatures will give way. charity, may be addressed by letter with re-
As a pastor of a great flock of the chil-| gard to it. Already a large number of fam-
dren of Catholic Ireland, it gives me a great-| ilies in the neighborh of our city have
er joy to receive your address, I will tell | invited, some a girl, some a boy, some a wom-
them how, across the wide sea, you join with) an and baby, some two children at a time,
them and me. They will join in every word | (believing, as they say, that two would en-
I am writing, and their prayers will b2 offered ' tertain each other;) while others, again, send
for you all and for the spread of your Cath-/| for a delicate woman. And we feal very sure
olic Total Abstinence Union throughout the that many others only need their attention
new world, Our League of the Cross will be
in line with you in the old world, and my
prayers at the altar will go up for both to
the Good Shepherd, in whom we are all one.
— a
From The New Century for Woman.
BABY FARMING.
In Boston, last summer, was originated a
style of baby-farming, which will not be in-
terfered with by the police, but on the con-
trary, is likely to save labor to them, and
the doctors. A number of families, living
just out of the city, some on farms, and
some in their country houses for the sum-
mer, agreed each to take one poor city
child for one weeks airing; to give it
the benefit of change, fresh milk, and
for once in its life a taste of fruit in its ripe
condition, and before it has had time to fer-
ment, in the latter end of the hot market day.
The experiment proved successful; one hun-
dred and fift children, from the stifling city
courts and alleys, were entertained in country
homes; some for the stipulated week, some,
whose entertainers became interested in their
little guests, for a longer time. And this
summer the same experiment has been started
in the city of Philadelphia. The plan is to
give the children the plainest food, the sim-
plest lodging, and liberty to run in the fields
allday. Not to take any so young, nor so
out of health, as to need especial care, but
such as will, nevertheless, be greatly bene-
fited by a week of clean air. There are
children in Philadelphia who have never seen
a field of grass, and to whom such a week
would be a revelation that would influence a
life-time.
And if some object to taking children,
directed to the idea, to give them an interest
in the work ; knowing that as they do it unto
the least of His children, they do it unto Him.
ous ae amen
COMPETITION AND CO-OPERATION.
[The foliowing paragraphs are taken from
an elaborate (16 paged) article on Building
| Associations, in the number of the Penn
Monthly for the present month.—Ed. Friends’
Review. ]
Co-operation is the opposite of competition.
Under the competitive system we are told
that 97 out of every 100 merchants fail.
What a record! “Competition is the life of
trade?’ But it is the death of the trader.
Wherever competition reigns suprem>, there
man will be found with his hand at his broth-
er’s throat; where co operation prevails, there
brothers will be founda clasping hands. ,
Competition presents a seething and rest-
less mass of humanity, bent on overreachin
one another. In climbing up the hill of life,
they seize the feet of those above them and
pull them back—the strong overpowering
the weak, and elevating themselves on the
prostrate bodies of their fellows.
Co-operation presents a united band ascend-
ing the same hill—the strong helping the
weak, and the weak aiding. the strong.
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Tae CxHILpREN’s SEASHORE Howse at
Atlantic Gjity, recently opened for the sum-
|mer, is growing in usefulness, and last year
129 children were treated in the House and
16 mothers were provided for as attendants
to their infant children in the “ Mothers’ Cot-
tages,” near the House. This institution has
been established for the benefit of invalid
children, and as a sanitary measure has been
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entirely successful, the sick infants, except
those whose cases were hopeless, being quickly
restored to health by sea breezes and sea
bathing. Of the 129 children admitted to
the House last year 110 were from private
homes, and 36 were under five years of age.
Paren’s who are able to contribute something
to the expenses of providing their children
with medical attendance at the seashore are
required to pay a merely nomiual sum for
their board—last year the charge was only $2
«6 week. Other children are admitted free.
ast year 83 were admitted as pay patients,
12 at a reduced rate, and 34 were admitted
without charge. Patients residing north of
Girard avenue and east of Sixth street, should
apply to Dr. B. J. Ruddervn, 552 East Dau-
phin street, and a!l others to Dr. J. V. Ing-
ham, 1342 Spruce st.
For those who may desire to assist this ex-
cellent charity, by subscription or otherwise,
we may mention that its Treasurer and Secre
tary is J. Shipley Newlin, 337 Market st.,
Philadelphia.
FRIENDS’ REVIEW. |
PHILADELPHIA, SEVENTH MO. 29, 1876.
QUOTATION AND ABRIDGMENT. — While
the contributors of original articles to Friends’
Review are much fewer than we wish them
to be, selected articles, such as appear to
us likely to interest or instruct our read-
ers, accumulate considerably in excess of our
space. Rath.r than lose the whole of a
piece, for all of which we could not find
room, it is our frequent practice to select
such portions as seem most appropriate for
our pages. When mentioned as an abridg-
ment, or exiract, there is certainly no injus-
tice in this.
More care is required in quo‘ing from an
author with the view of indicating his opinions
upon important subjects; especially if those
opinions are subjected to censure or objec-
tion. In religious controversy, “garbled”
quotations are often a great evil. One sen-
tence, taken out of its designed connection
with others, may, in almost any coffiposition,
signify a very different meaning from what
was intended to be conveyed. Even the
texts of the Bible must be read with their
context, in order to be rightly understood.
Sometimes, however, we have known an
overstrained objection to be made, against
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quoting from authorities on disputed subjects.
A contribution to this paper, some months
-ince, was found fault with, because it selected
passages from the writings of George Fox,
Robert Barclay and others, showing that the
absolute prohibition of singing in worship
was not taught nor acted upon by early
Friends. We do not think the objection in
this case to have been well taken; although
quite ready at the same time to act upon the
suggestion made, to reprint upon our pages
the whole of the most important of the docu-
ments thus partly cited. The early Friends’
testimony against “formal, customary sing-
ing, and artificial music,” has always been
made very familiar, by tradition as well as
by quotation. This, therefore, did not need
repetition, when the purpose in view was
simply to show that the whole of their testi-
mony and practice was not comprised in this
negation of the formalities of worship pre-
vailing among the professors of religion
around them.
Analogous to this, in some degree, has been a
remark often made and accepted, sometimes
even within the Society itself, that the founders
of the religious Society of Friends were deficient
in the confession and preaching of the evangeli-
cal doctrines of the New Testament. Of late
years, this charge has been, many times,
abundantly refuted. It arose from the fact,
that with almost all their hearers and readers
in their own day, the doctrine of the Atone-
ment and justification by faith, was univer-
sally accepted. Abuses of its misconstruc-
tion, they felt called upon to expose and
oppose; and a great part of their work was,
als», to reassert the truth concerning the Holy
Spirit, as taught in the Scriptures, and made
clear and real to them in their own experi-
ence. Many more pages may be extracted
from their works, therefore, upon these sub-
jects, than upon other equally essential
doctrines.
Wherever authors are quoted, upon any
subject, the requirement of justice seems to
be, that their purpose in writing, and ours in
citation, shall be clearly set forth. This
being done, whether the extracted passages
be long or short, no unfairness can be rightly
charged. “Of the making of books,” in our
age much more obviously than in that in
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which the book of Ecclesiastes was written,
“there is no end.” Condensation is the de
mand of our time. An important function
of periodical papers and magazines appear to
us to be, to express or distil, as it were, the
essence of newly discovered knowledge and
contemporary thought, so that it may be
hived by readers, without their having to go
from book to book, over the whole field of
literature or science. This kind of condensa-
tion requires leisure from engrossing occupa
tions, and some industry; but it is often a’
source of enjoyment as well as of profit. We}
would invite and encourage those who desire
to contribute to the advantage of the readers |
of Friends’ Review, to consider this, in their
various reading. To give us, in brief, the
cream of the best books of our day, would be
a service of value, which many would appre
ciate.
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LonDON AND PHILADELPHIA YEARLY
Meetincs.—In our abridgment cf the ac-
count of London Yearly Meeting given in
the British Friend, while all that was said
concerning Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was
not reproduced, our intention was to give)
enough to indicate clearly the tenor of the |
discussion. We are well aware that the gen-
eral sentiment of London Yearly Meeting
does not correspond with the expression of
W. Graham, that Philadelphia Yearly Meet-
ing has stood alone in this country “to up-|
hold our original principles and practices.”
A small minority of Friends in England still
hold this opinion. It is hardly disavowed by
the British Friend ; although we should think
some occurrences this year, especially in re-
gard to the reception of ministers from else-
where, might well lessen the number of those
who would still maintain it. The unwar-'
ranted assumption that it alone upholds the |
“doctrines and testimonies’ of the Society of |
Friends, we believe to be the main cause of!
the long continued estrangement of Phila-
delphia from the otherwise united body of the |
Society.
The affectionate fraternal salutation of|
London Yearly Meeting, as conveyed by the|
minute recorded upon the subject, will be
gratefully accepted and reciprocated by many
of the members of Philadelphia Yearly Meet- |
ing; who long for a restoration of a real and
total, as well as nominal unity, “in the bond
of peace.”
FirST-DAY SCHOOL, CONFERENCE OF WESTERN
YEARLY MEETING.—Pressure of Yearly Meeting
matter upon our space has prevented earlier al-
lusion to the published proceedings of this Con-
ference, which met at Richland, Indiana, in
sth mo.. We can make room only for an extract
from the address of the President, Hiram Had-
ley, of Chicago:
Although in the origin of our society, so much
was made of the Scriptures, entirely unaccounta-
bly to my mind, a period of decline came over
the body at large in America, in which, practically,
the Bible was largely lost sight of by many por-
tions of the body, and in its stead there grew up
a species of religious faith more in accord wlth
| private interpretation, more founded on human
practice, more fashioned after existing prejudice,
than upon truth derived from the Bible. This
could only exist where and when the Bible was
comparatively little used and known. That such
a condition did actually exist within our imme-
| diate berders, at a period no farther distant than
the beginning of the present half century, is
amply attested. This brings me more definitely
|to the main topic of my discourse, viz.: to trace
the origin and progress of the existing Bible-
schogl interest among us. My time has only
permitted me to treat this topic as it relates to
|Indiana Yearly Meeting, and the other Yearly
Meetings of which it is the parent. It would be
found, however, that this is no inconsiderable part
of the whole history. My sources of information
have chiefly been the published Minutes of these
bodies and reminiscences drawn from reliable
witnesses who yet live to testify to the origin of
| Bible-schools, and the difficulties attending their
establishment. As I read those Minutes, reflect
on them, and call to mind the experiences of my
'own boyhood, I am forced, reluctantly, to the
conclusion that something like an indescribable,
superstitious awe, or fear, of the Bible had_ per-
meated our. people, and practically precluded its
being searched as the Christian’s text book. But
| in the course of time a rupture came into our so-
ciety which opened the eyes of the faithful, but
somewhat isolated watchmen on the walls of
Zion, to enquire into the extent of the ignorance
of our members on the subject of Bible know-
ledge, and the facts must have been alarming to
| them, as they are at this day almost incredible to
} us.
Indiana Yearly Meeting was set off from Ohio,
in the year 1820, and was opened in the year
1821. At that time the stereotyped Qu ry in re-
| gard to encouraging “ chi/dren to frequently read
the Holy Scriptures" was answered, but with the
exception of a slight allusion to God in the con-
cluding Minute for each year, no further mention
is made of the Bible and its teachings, and the
name of either person of the Trinity does not
occur, or is not alluded to in those Minutes for
the years 1821, 1822 and 1823, and the name of
Christ does not appear in the Minutes until the
year 1824. I presume that some who are now
present can well remember how little instruction
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was generally given in the Scriptures at that
period. I mention these things only in evidence
of a decline in our society from its position at the
time the epistle from which I quoted was written
(1693), and that a fear, or awe, of those things,
which though sacred, should be constantly in the
heart and on the tongue of Christ's children, was
prevalent. Yet, we find Friends actively en-
gaged in the concerns of the church, dealing
with Slavery, Intemperance, &c., and caring for
the Indian and the Negro. They were very
careful about “ plainness of speech, deportment
and apparel.”’ These are matters of history, and
as such I present them. The shortcomings of
members gave the church much concern, and, as
it appears to me, much effort was made to make
the outside right, without touching the root of the
matter, the conversion of the soul.
In 1827, the Yearly Meeting found it necessary
to issue an epistle reaffirming our belief in the
divinity of Christ, and in 1828, first in Philadel-
phia, and then throughout the land, the great
Hicksite separation occurred. I have heard Ben-
jamin Fulghum and other Friends express the
opinion, that had our society been fully ac-
quainted with the Bible, it would have been im-
possible for that division to have occurred.
Whether that be true or not, it zs true that imme-
diately afterward, in 1830, Indiana Yearly Meet- |
ing began to take steps to encourage more |
Scripture study, especially in the family and in
ordinary schools. Friends were advised by the
Yearly Meeting to abstain from participating in
the Public Schools, ‘ supported as they are in
part by fines imposed on the Society of Friends
| 1. That at the origin of our Society the Bible
and its teachings were carefully studied.
2. That a period of decline crept in and culmi-
nated in the Hicksite separation.
3. That the revival of Bible study, both in the
family and in Bible-schools, was stimulated first,
by individual effort; secondly, by subordinate
meetings recognizing the work, and finally by
the Yearly Meeting.
Long before any official recognition by the
Yearly Meeting of Bible-schools, I find that such
schools were established by the Yearly Meeting’s
committee for ‘the People of Color,” and for
“the Indians,” thus acknowledging that these
schools were at least good for Negroes and In-
dians.
The reading of the Scriptures in the family was
frequently and pressingly urged by the Yearly
Meeting. In 1846, Indiana Yearly Meeting di-
rected Monthly Meetings to see that each family
was supplied with a copy of the Holy Scriptures.
In the same year a Query was added to these on
the subject of education, eliciting information in
regard to ‘the attention given to the reading of
| the Holy Scriptures in school,’’ In 1847, the re-
port reads, ‘‘ The Holy Scriptures are read in all
our schools by the teachers, and in many of them
they are read as a class-book.”
In 1853, Indiana Yearly Meeting so far ac-
knowledged “ First-day Scripture Schools”’ as to
append a Query to those pertaining to education,
to require reports as to the number of “ First-
| day Scripture Schools,” length of time, average
| attendance, and number of meetings without such
| schools.
on account of one of its Christian testimonies,”’| In 1854, the first report says, ‘‘one hundred
and to support schools under the immediate care | and thirty-seven schools, average attendance
of the society, and “believing it important that | three thousand two hundred and forty-nine, and
the minds of our children should at an early age | twenty-seven meetings without such schools,”
be stored with the truths relating to life and sal- | thus showing that these schools were prety well
vation, we propose that reading the Holy Scrip- | established before the Yearly Meeting recognized
tures should form a part of the daily exercises of | them.
our schools.” Friends were aroused by the| The concern grew in interest so rapidly that
calamity that had occurred, and much attention | in 1859 it was assigned to a separate committee,
was given to circulating Friends’ books. From | of which I was appointed clerk, and continued
this time forward, the Minutes of Indiana Yearly | to serve in that capacity until my removal from
Meetings abound ip expressions, affirming the | the limits of the Yearly Meeting.
omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and The first report, 1860, shows four thousand
the oneness of Father, Son and Holy Ghost. | nine hundred and ten of our members as pupils,
In 1834, seventy schools in Indiana Yearly | and only nine meetings without a school.
Meeting were reported under the care of| In 1858 Western Yearly Meeting was opened,
Friends, and yet 1,002 children, in less than | in 1863 lowa Yearly Meeting, and in 1872 Kan-
5,000, were not receiving any education, and that| sas Yearly Meeting. In all these Yearly Meet-
25 families were unsupplied with a copy of the | ings the Scripture School interest is thoroughly
Bible ; in 1833, 33 families were not so supplied ; | planted; it has grown to be scarcely second in
in 1831, 91 families and parts of families.| its influence to that of the church proper. If
I find no statistics on this point of earlier date, | this work is of the Lord, and who can doubt it,
but I have been informed that at the time of the| have we not much to be thankful for? How
separation not more than one-half of the families | pleasant it would be to pursue the line of thought
of Friends had a copy of the Scriptures. Was| thus awakened and look into the future, but I
not the result what should have heen expected ? | will not thus trespass on your patience. I can-
Yet even now, with this fearful scourge, the So-| not forbear one thought, however. As honest
ciety did not feel willing to acknowledge Scrip-| seekers after truth become thoroughly enlight-
ture schools as a part of the work of the church. | ened in Bible knowledge, contentions and differ-
But, be it said to their honor for Christ’s sake, | ences of opinion on religious topics vanish. This
there were faithful individuals who were diligent | is true, not only of individual members of the
in the work of teaching the Scriptures. They were | same body, but also of different bodies. Hence,
molding that sentiment which eventually gave | when we speak of dividing lines being obliter-
te us what we now enjoy. tia ated, and more unity and greater charity abound-
This subject expands so much as I pursue it,| ing, we only tacitly acknowledge we are being
that I find myself compelled to study brevity, but | “ taught of God.’’ ‘‘ Every man, therefore, that
I am convinced, and | think I have presented| hath heard, and hath learned of the Father,
evidence of the following : cometh unto me.”’—John, vi. 45.
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New YORK YEARLY MEETING.—From the; From the epistle of Hannah Pierson to the
printed minutes we are able to supplement our | Women's Yearly Meeting :
account already given with the following extracts:
From Report of Trustees of the Murray Fund: |
“As I have sat quietly in my own room, my mind
has been brought into a loving sympathy with
the sincere-hearted, humble and fearful ones,
“‘ During the year we have printed two editions | and it is with me especially to encourage these to
of 1,000 copies each of the “ Power of Religion ;" | look from themselves to the dear Lord Jesus
many of them have been sold at a low price, | Christ, who, if they faithfully occupy with the
with a view of giving extensive circulation to the | gifts received, will be made to them ‘ Wisdom,
work, others have been placed in libraries and | <ighteousness, Sanctification and Redemption.’
on vessels bound on long voyages. We have| He will make a way for them where they do not
also printed a further edition of 1,000 copies of| see a way, and be mouth and wisdom, tongue
“Colored Americans,” and many of them have | and utterance to them. He will be their strength
been distributed among the Freedmen. A cor- | in weakness, and a present helper.
responding number of ‘Dymond on War’ has | ‘“T also feel like adding a caution to those who
been printed.- The Trustees have not confined | are very zealous for the cause of truth and right-
their efforts to this publication alone, but their | eousness in the earth, to let their zeal be tem-
aid has been extended to different organizations | pered with knowledge. It will not hinder, but
for spreading our Christian views on this impor- | greatly tend to promote the cause you have at
tant subject. The applications for assistance |heart, by keeping you near your Heavenly
have been more numerous than usual the past | Guide. It is only by a fresh anointing for every
year. We have endeavored to exercise sound | service that any can labor with acceptance to
discretion in the distribution of the income of the | God, or bring glory to His holy Name, or bene-
Fund, and not to make an appropriation without
carefully examining into the merits and needs of
the cases presented to our notice. It will be ob-
served many of our public and private charities |
have been assisted. The Freedmen at the South
have not been neglected, and the efforts tor the
Colored race have in various ways been sustained
by our action in accordance with the clear design
of the Founder of this Trust.
‘* The claims of the poor, the sick and the suf.- |
fering have been carefully regarded, and in va-
rious other channels has the income of the Fund
been distributed, cheering many a home by |
our timely assistance.”’
From the Report of the Committee on General
Meetings :
“We would thank our Heavenly Father for
having sent many of His ministering servants
from other Yearly Meetings to co-operate with
our committee in their various labors, and would |
also say, that the work has been greatly aided by
the committees of the different Quarterly Meet-
ings, who have labored efficiently not only while
the Yearly Meeting’s Committee were with them,
but have continued their labors, feeling it was a
life service in which they were engaged.
“We have found those churches that were
united in bowing before the Lord asking for His
blessing and seeking to know and do His will,
valiant in the cause of Christ. They have been
par themselves and have been a blessing to
others.
“« We have also found the growth of Christian-
ity has been retarded in those churches where the
members were cavilling at cach other's way of
working, instead of presenting an unbroken front
to the great enemy of souls.
“In passing through the various parts of our
Yearly Meeting, we have felt the time had come
when, as a Yearly Meeting, some measures should
be taken by which our small meetings might be |
aided in the way of evangelistic and pastoral
labor. There are those among us who are quali-
fied by the Holy Spirit for such service and is it
not the duty of the church to recognize these
gifts, and give the needed encouragements to the
exercise of them where the Lord may direct ?”’
fit the Church of Christ.
“I love those who love our dear Lord Jesus,
|and are willing to spend and be spent in His
most blessed service, and I rejoice in the deeper
and more lively work that has been carried on
| among you of late years. I am one with you in
earnest prayer, that the Lord may be very near
|to you in your present gathering, may dispense
an abundant blessing, and that by the Holy
Spirit's influence you may be drawn near to-
gether, sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
| where you may partake together of the bread and
the wine ot the kingdom.” :
The serious evil of the law proposed for the
legalization of prostitution having been brought
| before the Women’s Yearly Meeting, it was con-
cluded to address the following remonstrance to
the State Legislature:
“In view of the bill for legalizing prostitution,
to be presented to the Legislature of our State,
we would respectfully, but earnestly, enter our
protest against its passage.
“We believe that it is opposed to the requisitions
of the Gospel, and to the honor and safety of the
morals and manners of the community, and
therefore pray that no such law may ever be
enacted.”
Ruth S. Murray and Caroline Ladd were ap-
pointed a committee to present this remonstrance
to the Senate and Assembly of New York.
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THE RomMAN CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE
MoveMENT.—A very large assemblage of the
C. T. A. Union of America met not long
'ago at the dedication of a memorial fountain
within the Centennial Exhibition Grounds at
Philadelphia. This movement does great credit
'to the existing leaders of the Roman Catholic
| denomination in this country. Recognizing the
fearful destruction wrought by intemperance
amongst their own people, they have enlisted
against it the enthusiasm of associated numbers,
with excellent effect. On another page we ex-
| tract a part of a letter trom Cardinal Manning on
/ the subject.
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THE AMERICAN SABBATH.*
The Sabbath is recognized in the Constitu-
tion of the United States, and its desecration
forbidden by statutes both State and national.
Its observance is inwrought with our social
and religious customs, and constitutes a
marked feature of our national life.
By law our legislative halls are closed upon
the Sabbath, our courts of justice suspended,
our school-rooms are shut, our manufactories
dampen their fires, and places of amusement
cease to invite their votaries; shops may not
offer their wares, nor legal contracts be made
upon thatday; railroads are commanded to sus
pend their traffic, and steamboats to lie inact-
ive at their wharves; while theSabbath-sthools
gather the children, and the churches throw
wid open their doors, inviting all to respect the
law of the land and to obey the law of God:
and this by the observance of the Sabbath as
a day of rest, not of toil—a day of worship,
not of amusement—a holy day, not a holiday.
Why do the Americans give the Sabbath a
place so prominent and important in their
civil and religious life?
Because they believe it to be of Divine ori-
gin, of perpetual obligation, and its observance
essential to the welfare of the individual, the
prosperity of the church, and the perpetuity
of the State. . . . ;
Said the wily and bitter Voltaire: “ There
is no hope of destroying the Christian religion,
*Extracts from a Tract issued by the American Tract
Society.
’ REVIEW.
<0 long as the Christian Sabbath is acknow-
ledged and kept by man as a sacred day.”
Said the able jurist Blackstone: “ A cor-
ruption of morals usuilly follows a profae
nation of the Sabbath. The keeping of one
day in seven holy, as a time of refresh-
ment as well as for public worship, is of ad-
mirable service to a state, considered merely
as a civil institution. It enables the indus-
trious workman to pursue his occupation in
the ensuing week with health and cheerful-
ness; it imprints on the minds of the people
that sense of their duty to God so necessary
|to make them good citizens, which yet would
| be worn out and defaced by an unremitted
‘continuance in labor, without any stated
itime of recalling them to the worship of
| their Maker.”
Said Bishop, on Criminal Law: “It isa
| mistake to suppose that Sabbath-keeping is a
thing merely of relizious observance, :
the setting apart by the whole community of
one day in seven, wherein the thoughts of
men and their physical activities shall be
% turned into another than their accustomed
channel, is a thing pertaining as much to the
|law of nature as is the intervening of the
=| nights between the days.”
| But why multiply witnesses when the fact
that no nation can long prosper in material
wealth or high morality without a Sabbath,
| lies in the very nature of things. Persistent
and intelligent labor is essential to material
prosperity, but the rest of the Sabbath is es-
| sential to for such labor; morality is essential
| to the perpetuity of free institutions; but a
|pure morality cannot long exist without a
properly observed Sabbath.
While believing this, American Christians
do not ask nor wish the State to enforce a
religious ohservance of the Christian Sabbath.
They only demand that the State shall pro-
tect them in the exercise of their spiritual
privileges, and shal] not itself desecrate holy
time by encouraging or allowing secular em-
ployments on the day of rest. ‘“ They re-
gard the civil Subbath as essential for
public morals and the self-preservation of the
State,” the Christian Sabbath as essential to
the progress of pure religion and the salvation
of men. The spberes of the two—the civil
and the Christian Sabbath—though harmo-
nious, are not co-extensive; the civi] prohib-
its desecration, the Christian does this, and
also enjoins holy observance ; and here runs
the broad line between the duties of church
and State. The State should protect the
Sabbath from injury; the church must teach
and incite men to spiritual improvement du-
ring its sacred hours. For the State is no
less responsible to God for the right discharge
of its civil duties than is the church for its
spiritual functions.
a Pe ee ee ee ee ee ee ne ee |
-~ ete 2 Go oe ot ott Se oe af
FRLEN DS’
This view of the Sabbath as to its origin, |
perpetuity, binding obligations, and infinite
value to morals and religion, is a character- |
istic of our national life. ‘ It enters,” says
the judicious Dr. Philip Schaff, “into the |
bone and sinew of American character. It is
entrenched in our national habits, embodied
in our creeds, and guarded by our civil legis-
lation. It is an essential part of American
Christianity and morality, and one of the
strongest common bonds which unite the dif.
ferent Protestant denominations.” The ven-
erable French scholar, Duponceau, after long
familiarity with America, made the remark, |
that “Of all we claimed as characteristic, our |
observance of the Sabbath is the only one)
truly national and American trait, and he!
trusted it would never lose its hold on our’
affections and patriotism.” , ‘et
* Take away the Sabbath,” it is well said,
“and you deprive the man of labor and toil,
of poverty and sorrow, of his most humane
and beneficent institution. Take away the
Sabbath, and you destroy a mighty conserva
tive force, and dry up a fountain from which
the family, the church and the State receive
constant nourishment and suyport. Take
away the Sabbath, and you shake the moral
foundations of our national power and pros
perity; our churches will be forsaken, our
REVIEW. 797
God to you this afternoon. You do not feel,
you say, any interest in religion. But by
your coming here this afternoon God has
fastened one little thread upon youall. It is
very weak and frail, and you can easily dash
it away. But will youdoso? No; welcome
it, and it will enlarge and strengthen itself
until it becomes a golden thread, to bind you
forever to a God of love.”
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TRICHINA SPIRALIS.
BY FRANKLIN CHASE CLARK, M. D.
The history of the hair muscle parasite is
of curious interest. Although the cause and
nature of the disease produced by its presence
in the human body were not discovered until
| 1860, it is now confidently believed that the
'disease known to us as Trichina-disease,
|or Trichiniasis, was not of uncommon occur-
jrence ia the past, but then confounded with
other virulent maladies.
| The first notice we have of the muscle-
worm was a little over fifty years ago, when
| very minute white specks were observed in
the muscles of “subjects” in the dissecting-
reoms. In 1835, some years later, Professor
Owen, of London, made a microscopic exam-
Sunday-schools emptied, domesiic devotions | ination of some of these “ white specks,” and
Se eeu tee Seal eae ere seamen
’ ( ies, hollow, and each one containing minu
profanity, licentiousness and vice will inun-/ hair-like worms coiled up. To the parasite
date the land, labor will lose its reward,| he gave the name Trichina Spiralis, from the
liberty be deprived of its pillar, self-govern- Greek word meaning Aair, and from a Latin
ment will prove a failure, and our republican | term which signifies, coiled up, or in a spiral.
institutions end in anarchy, confusion and/The worm measured one-thirtieth of an
a = .. =< Se ines in lena and oemey la —
u é ior the United States the Deg'nnoing | inch in diameter. ut for a quarter of @
of the reiga of Mammon, Bacchus and Venus, | century afterwards this hair-like parasite was
Soent he So masons seco oo | nee ates
in. o, snnot, we ¢ — n a new phase of character was pre-
God helping us, we will not give up the| sented by the parasite. A German physician,
Sabbath. on making a post-mortem examination of a pa-
| tient who had died of a very grave malady,
found a large number of trichive in the mus-
How Jesus Draws Men.—Dr. Payson | cles ra the alimentary canal in Da stages =
mn in the ome i sae Sona grows . Oa Tn the weasl)t ne oe ®
e., gave notice that he would be giad to see| found the person (a young gir!) to Dave eaten
any young person who did not intend to seek | largely of raw smoked ham and sausages &
religion. Any one would be surprised to hear | stort time before her sickness. The remains of
that between thirty and forty came. He| some of these meats were examined and found
spent a very pleasant interview with them, | to contain thousands of muscle-worms. He
saying nothing about religion till just as they | also learned that the remaining residents of
were about to leave he closed a very few plain | the estate were affected, and that the butcher
poe mee eee you aan gee — oy the Pig, from ve nese
ing down from heaven a very fine thread, so; and ham were made was also sick. us
fine as to be almost invisible, aad it should | appeared most evidently that these parasites
om and gently attach ee : Pato a produced by we ee flesh - a
new, we suppose, it came from 4. Shou xperiments were made aliterwards, and 1
you dare to put out your haud and thrust it} was found that all animals to whom pork
away? Now, such a thread has come from containing Trichine was given had Trichine
>
798 FRIEND’S REVIEW.
developed in their muscles. Thus from a|Saxony and at Gidttingen in 1871; at
harmless and curious parasite the muscle-| Bremen in 1873 from eating raw smoked
worm became an alarming and dreadful|hams imported from this country. Many
cause of disease. others have been noticed. But the most ex-
Subsequent writers have shown that many | tensive and alarming epidemic which has
of the epidemics of the past were due to eat-| ever been observed in Germany appeared at
ing trichinous pig’s flesh. Among the earliest Hedersleben, a little town of only 2,000 in-
of these epidemics was one occurring at Wiir-| habitants, in 1865. 337 of the population
temburg in 1675. It is more confidently be-| were affected and 101 died.
lieved to have been produced by Trichine,| Turning to our own country we find first
since all who were taken sick had a few days| mention made of the Trichina-disease in 1864
reviously partaken of pickled and smoked | in the city of New York. Several cases were
hem. A whole family sickened, two of whom | reported and one death. The disease was
died. Other epidemics are supposed to have| induced by partaking of raw smoked ham.
happened in Germany; one in Wurzen in| The remaining portion of the ham was exam-
1834-37; 1858 in Breslau; 1859-62 in| ined and found to contain myriads of trichi-
Blankenburg. A very slight epidemic was|nx. Dr. Dalton examined a portion of the
proved to have taken place in 1851, by a| muscles of the one who died, and found the
post-mortem examination of a person in 1865| parasite in the proportion of 85,000 to the
who had been sick at that time but recovered. | cubic inch of muscle. As many as 2,000,000
When subjected toa microscopic examination, | of these ugly visitors have been estimated as
the body of the man was found to contain | taking up their abode in a man who died
some of the parasites. The pig had been|of this disease. In 1866, at Marion, Lowa,
brought from Valparaiso and killed by the| nine persons partook of sliced raw ham ; all
sailors when they were within a few days’ sail| were taken sick and five died. One of the
from port. All who ate of the pork, except| family, it is said, ate of the ham partly
one, died. ‘cooked and was but slightly affected, and
The “sweating” disease (“English sweat”)| another when well done, and was not
or “black death” was the name given to an| affected at all. A portion of the ham had
epidemic which occurred in 1849-50 in a| been given to a healthy sow, which eee
town in Germany (Wezlebev), and subse-| after died with all the symptoms of “ hog
uently found to have been produced by |cholera.” Small epidemics have occurred
Trichine. Thus it is not improbable that| since. But all are traced to the eating of
other epidemics were caused by eating the| rare or ne flesh. ‘ , .
flesh of pigs; especially as the symptoms ex- | Trichina iralis, therefore, is a microseopi¢
hibited by many of those affected greatly | worm inhabiting the muscles of swine and
correspond with the symptoms of those sick | produced in the human flesh by partaking of
with the muscle-worm disease. pork “‘ not well done.” —Sanitarian.
Since the discovery of the nature of this ees.
parasite many epidemics of the trichinous
disease have been observed. Great Britain THE QUICKENING NEEDED.
and France have thus far been exempt from :
the disease, chiefly, perhaps, because pork is| What is the great want that on all hands is
cooked in those countries till well-done. | making itself felt, and over which all earnest
Hence our attention must be confined to| believers in every section of Christ’s Church
Germany aud this country. mourn? Is it not the quickening of the
The first well-authenticated epidemic of|Church? Turn to the Evangelist, who, with
Trichiniasis, not including the case of the| burning words declares all the counsel of
young girl above mentioned, occurred in Blan-| God; ask him why his work succeeds not
kenburg during the years 1859-60 and 1862.| more largely—why is it that the dense masses
Sixty were taken sick and two died. From|of the people are not reached, and the out-
1861 to 1863 several cases were observed at| casts who would have thronged to hear Jesus,
Leipsic ; in 1860 one at Magdeburg, where) will not listen now to the gospel of His pity-
300 sickened and two died; another of a|ing love? The answer will be: “Only by %
more fatal character in 1863 at Hettstadt.| quickened Church can the masses be reached ;
Here of a company of 103 who sat down at a/ and the fact that thousands huddled together
banquet, all but one or two were soon after|under the very shadow of our tall ¢ urch
taken sick, and twenty died a month after- spires, are yet without God and with no hope,
wards. The disease was clearly traced to eat-|is only attributable to the low standard of
ing raw smoked ham and sausages made from | piety among professors of religion, the waut
a “sick pig.” Another plague of this disease | of that ‘ more abundant life,’ the possession of
occurred at Hanover and Dessau in 1864;| which will make every believer a messenger
at Erlangen in 1870; at a place in|of mercy to those who are ready to perish.
—_—
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FRIENDS’
Give but a quickened Church, and every
court, and den, and lane will be occupied by
swift-footed evangelists, carrying glad tidings
of great joy to all the people!” Turn to the |
Philanthropist; why is he so discouraged? |
He ‘has toiled and failed to bring to an end |
the great social and national curses of the|
people; to clear the way of stumbling stones |
and rocks of offence that bar it, and make it |
impassable to thousands upon thousands of |
our fellow creatures. He has failed because |
the great hindrances to his mission are selfish |
and un-Christlike professors of Christianity, |
who, interested only in their own likings and
pleasures, care not that their countenance and |
example are the avenues by which their breth-
ren are led to run; and by which the sources
of danger are upheld. A quickened Church
would arise and “prepare the way of the|
Lord ;” by it the paths would be made straight
for the feet of the simple, and even the blind |
would walk safely, for strong hands would
guide them in sure paths. Social reforms,
moral purifying, universal evangelization,
would follow the revival of the Christian
Church, as effect follows cause. Christians are |
the salt of the earth ; Christians are the light
of the world. If the salt has lost its savor—
if there be no oil in the lamps—small chance
is there for any other power, that undertakes
the moral elevation and the true enlighten-
ment of mankind. The forefront work of
the hour, therefore, is to obtain the first and |
greatest blessing, the one only blessing that |
will bring about the answer to the prayer |
which Christ taught to His disciples ; and this |
is the work which the “holiness movement,” |
by the grace of God is doing. Let worldly |
Christians sneer and cavil, none who seek |
the more mighty and more manifest occu-
ney of the Church by the Holy Ghost are
ollowing other than the Holy Ghost’s own
leading.— Penuel.
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For Friends’ Review.
A SUPPLICATION,
Father of all, we look to Thee,
And crave that Thou our help may be
In every time of need.
We know we’re much inclined to stray
Far from Thy pure and holy way,
In thought and word and deed.
We know we have a tempter strong,
That fain would lead us in the wrong,
Through many a pleasing snare:
We know our strength will not avail,
That human aid a/one will fail,
Though sought with anxious care.
We know unless 7%y Spirit guide
Our wayward steps, we soon may slide
To right or left and fall :
Or else before Thy Spirit go;
Or lag 4ehind and careless grow ;
Or disobey Thy call.
REVIEW.
Then grant, we pray, Thou gracious Lord,
The shining influence of Thy Word,
To guide our steps aright :
And grant us strength that we may be
Obedient children unto Thee—
Obedient to Thy light.
Teach us to know that light from 7hee,
Is that alone by which we see,
The things of heaven and Thine :
That reason's light alone can go
To measure earth, and things below,
And not to things divine.
When stormy waves around us roll,
And dark despair o’erwhelms the soul,
May’t be Thy sov’reign will,
Thy calming Spirit to impart,
And whisper sweetly to the heart
The words of « Peace, be still.’
Should friends forsake, and join our foes,
And earthly hopes in darkness close,
O, then! we humbly pray,
That Thou in mercy may’st be nigh,
And raise our minds from earth, on high,
To realms of endless day.
So may our hearts and treasures be
Above this earth, in heaven, with Thee,
That, when our conflict’s o’er,
Our ransomed souls may gain that life
Where discords cease, where pain, and strife,
And sorrows are no more.
D.H
Dublin, Ind., 7th Mo , 1876.
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QUARTERLY MEETINGS IN EIGHTH
MONTH, 1876.
From New York Pocket Almanac.
Eighth mo., 3rd, Rhode Island, New England Y. M,
" “ Purchase, New York Y. M.
* 5th, Alum Creek, New York Y. M.
e “ Centre, Indiana Y. M.
“ Plainfield, Western Y. M.
™ “ Ash Grove, 7 =
Kokomo, ¥ a
“ Springdale, Iowa Y. M.
7th, Philadelphia Phivadelphia Y. M,
10th, Smithfield, New England Y. M.
“ Abington, Philadelphia Y. M.
** Salem, Ohio Y. M.
12th, Salem, New England Y. M.
“ Ferrisburg, New York Y. M.
Western, North Carolina Y. M.
“Lost Creek, ™ -
“ Damascus, Ohio Y. M.
“ Miami, Indiana Y. M.
“ Walnut Ridge, Indiana Y. M.
** White Lick, Western Y. M.
“ Vermilion, _ “
Salem, lowa Y. M.
Lynn Grove, [owa Y. M.
Bear Creek, . >
Concord, Philadelphia Y. M.
Butternuts, New York Y. M.
Salem, Philadelphia Y. M.
Cala, § *
Dover, New England Y. M.
Contentnea, North Carolina Y. M.
Friendsville, - e
Short Creek, Ohio Y. M.
West Branch, Indiana Y. M.
Bloomingdale, Western Y. M.
Fairfield, 7 ™
Pleasant Plain, Iowa Y. M.
Ackworth, = o
Saratoga, New York Y. M.
Western, Philadelphia Y. M.
, Falmouth, New England Y. M.
Eastern, North Carolina Y. M.
Southern, - «
New Garden, Indiana Y. M.
Thorntown, Western Y. M.
Bangor, [owa Y. M.
Oskaloosa, lowa Y. M.
Springdale, Kansas Y. M.
29th, Burlington, Philadelphia Y. M.
3ist, Nine Partners, New York Y. M.
“ Bucks, Philadelphia Y. M.
Ohio Yearly Meeting commences Eighth mo., 24th.
“
FRIENDS’ REVIEW.
SUMMARY OF NEWS. The government of Greece has notified the North-
ern powers that it intends to observe strict neutrality,
ForREIGN INTELLIGENCE.—Advices from Europe to| The accounts of military proceedings are so contra-
the 25th inst. have been received. dictory that the truth cannot be ascertained. Some
Great BritAIN.—The position of the mill work |¢mg2gements have occurred, and apparently the gen.
ers at Glasgow is becoming worse ; other mill owners | eral result has been rather unfavorable to the Servians,
have declared their intention to reduce the wages of but there has been nothing decisive.
their employees 10 per cent., and it is feared the re. Mex1co.—The officially published result of the
duction will become general. Some of the workmen | Secondary and final Presidential election gives Lerdo
have struck, and others intend doing so. The cotton | de ‘Tejada, the present incumbent, an overwhelming ma-
masters at Oldham have resolved to run their mills | Jtty- It now remains for Congress, at its meeting in
only four days in the week. The wages of 50,000/ Ninth mo, next, to declare him re-elected for the term of
operatives, it is said, will thus be decreased $50,000 | four years, beginning Twelfth month tst. Some revo.
weekly. Great depression also exists in the Cleveland lutionary bands still cause disturbance in different parts
von trade. of the country, on Laving interrupted, for a time, com-
A boiler explosion occurred on the 14th inst. on | munication between Orizaba and Vera Cruz. ;
board the iron clad Thunderer, in the harbor of Ports-| DOMEsTIC.—The Post Office Department has given
mouth, by which 40 of the crew were killed on the| notice that by the appropriation bill for that depart-
spot or have since died from the effects. ment, which went into effect on the 12th inst., the
In the House of Lords, on the 24th, Earl Granville ; Postage on printed matter of the third class, except
called attention to the extradition question. He said | unsealed circulars, is one cent for every two ounces or
that the act of 1870 could have no effect on the treaty fractional part ther. of; and the sender of any article
of 1842. He advised remedial legislation. Earl of that class may write his or her name therein or on
Derby, in reply, repeated arguments similar to those in | the outside, with the word “from” preceding it, or
the published correspondence, and said that negotia-; ™4y write briefly or print on any package the number
tions are going on with hopes of speedy success. or name of the articles inclosed. The former rates on
The Afark Lane Express, the organ of the grain third class matter are thus restored.
trade, reports the prospects of the English wheat crop| The number of deaths in Philadelphia for the week
as good, and that those of France and Germany are | ending with the 22nd inst., was 587, a decrease from
satisfactory both in quality and quantity. the preceding week of 267. A great reduction of
In the House of Commons on the 21st, a member | temperature, fullowing a thunder storm on the 2oth,
asked an official of the Colonial Department if he, and continuing several days, probably contributed
could give any information respecting the conflict be-| largely to this result, Early on the morning of the
tween the United States troops and the Sioux Indians, 2q4th, the thermometer fell to 60°, and the highest
many of whom are British subjects; whether the ori- | Po!nt registered during the day was 80°. }
gin of it was not a breach of the treaty regarding the | The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has directed
Indian reservation and subsidies, which may provoke ‘he Indian Agents at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
wide-spread antagonism on both American and British | Agencies, among the Sioux, to transfer their charge to
territory; and whether the government proposed to | the military officers at the camps near those points, for
tender its good offices in the interest of its Indian sub- | the reason that he thinks it important to have entire
jects and of humanity. The reply was that no official | harmony between the military and civil officers near
information had been received, and that there was | the agencies, in the present condition of affairs in that
nothing to show that any British subjects were con-
nected with these events. As at present advised, the
government does not intend to interfere.
FRANCE.—The subscriptions to the loan of the}
city of Paris aomunt to fifty-four times the sum re-
quired.
The Senate has rejected, by a vote of 144 to 139, |
the government bill reserving to the State the sole
right of conferring university degrees. The Chamber |
of Deputies has renewed the vote of the former As- |
sembly overthrowing the Empire; and has decided to |
appoint a committee to codify the press laws. }
AustriA.—Later advices show that the recent earth- |
quake affected the Danube basin from Passan in Ba. |
varia to Presburg in Hungary. At the centre of the |
movement there were three shocks, lasting ten seconds.
TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.—The Rouman
ian government has sent an address to the Porte de
claring that Roumania, conformably with its own in-
terests and the wishes of Europe, should continue neu
tral and labor peacefully for the development of its
internal resources. The Grand Vizier of Turkey has
issued a proclammation announcing that irregular
troops commiting brigandage and other outrages upon
peaceable inhabitants will be arrested and summarily
executed. A Turkish functionary has been sent as an |
extraordinary commissioner to suppress and punish the
excesses committed in Bulgaria.
A Paris jotunal asserts that the-six Great Powers are
in daily communication respecting Eastern affairs, with
a view of establishing a general agreement. so as to be
ready to take advantage of any oppoitunity to exercise
moral influence.
region.
ConGress.—The Senate has passed a bill appropri-
ating $100,000 towards the completion of the Wash-
ington monument in Washington City; the House bill
to regulate the issue of artiftcial limbs to disabled sol-
diers and sailors; and a resolution requesting the heads
of each of the executive departments to furnish a
statement of the number of civil employees therein, in
each of the odd years from 1859 to 1875 inclusive,
The river and harbor appropriation bill was consid-
ered, but not disposed of, The Senate agreed to the
conference report on the sundry civil appropriation
bill, in which the House had receded from its amend-
ment repealing the election law, and the Senate from
some of its additions to the amount appropriated by
the House, and alsoto the conference report on the army
appropriation bill, have been adopted by both Houses.
The legislaiive, consular, diplomatic, Indian, and mili-
tary academy appropriation bills were still in charge of
conference commitices on the 26th.
The House passed the Senate bill extending the dura-
tion of the Court of Commissioners of the Alabama
Claims to the Ist of First month next; a bill for the
protection of the Texas frontier, authvrizing additional
military force to be stationed on the Rio Grande; and
the Senate bill extending to the 1st of Second munth
next the time within which lands held by the govern-
ment under the acts levying direct tixes may be re-
deemed.
The impeachment trial was resumed on the roth,
the missing witness having arrived. The examination
of witnesses closed with his testimony, and the argu-
ments gf counsel commenced the next day, and were
| not concluded on the 25th.
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